Dwayne Phillips ' Day Book
Items
I happen to view each day. Science, Techonology, Management, Culture,
and of course Writing
This is my day book for this week. I have modeled this after science
fiction and computer writer Jerry Pournelle's view, or as he calls it,
his Day Book.
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This
week: May 4-10, 2015
Summary of this week:
- Death toll in Nepal rises above 7,000
- Uber pulls out of Kansas due to regulations
- FTC investigating Apple's music service
- NFL declares New England Patriots cheaters (again)
- Reddit to create its own TV shows
- Daimler shows its first, legal self-driving truck
- Appeals Court rules against NSA bulk collection
- CHIP: a $9 Linux computer on a credit card size board
Monday
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Monday May 4, 2015
The rumors of an large iPad grow stronger; it will have a stylus and a USB-C connector.
Want to improve your posture while sitting? There's an app for that complete with magnets and sensors.
Mirror your Facebook page as a full-functioning web page. There's an app for that.
If you live in California, the state will give you a $9,000 bribe to buy a Chevy Volt.
A short history of how agricultural Santa Clara Valley became Silicon Valley. I remember the farms.
The confirmed death toll in Nepal now surpasses 7,000.
What it is like to fly Singapore Airline's Suite Class.
Google Chrome edges past the 25% market share for browsers.
A few laughs at the expense of the too-expensive Internet of Things.
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Tuesday May 5, 2015
No Internet viewing due to travel.
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Wednesday May 6, 2015
Limited Internet viewing due to travel.
In the US, most Google search now come from mobile devices.
Uber pulls out of Kansas due to new regulations.
Apple's music streaming service, still not here yet, is being investigated by the FTC. Ah, more government to the rescue to keep consumers from services they want.
Comcast now has more Internet customers than TV customers. The world ends, the world begins.
Our government appealed a court ruling and won. Now our government can watch us through third parties without a warrant.
IBM's Watson is now being used in cancer research institutes.
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Thursday May 7, 2015
Once again, the NFL finds the New England Patriots cheating—deflating footballs.
The city council of Mountain View voted NO on Google's proposed fancy building.
Let us not be surprised if Google votes NO on staying in Mountain View.
They can move somewhere else with all their high-paying jobs.
Reddit will starting creating original videos, a.k.a., TV shows.
Samsung starts work on a $14billion integrated circuit manufacturing plant.
Mankind rediscovers the health benefits of sleeping without clothing.
MacKeeper, that annoying popup from the Ukraine, is now paying million$ in lawsuit.
The city of Chicago is now paying million$ for torturing citizens in past decades. We pray that the practice has stopped.
Application programming interface—the service that enables software to eat the world.
The
ACLU has cloud storage for citizens recording video of public officers
(police). If police smash your camera, the video is saved. I still
wonder what the wonder is about citizens recording publicly funded
public officials performing public duties in public.
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Friday May 8, 2015
Daimler takes a first step into self-driving trucks. They will have a person in them for now. Unemployment is next.
The Internet of Things will bring factories, but few jobs, back to America.
Google buys Timeful so that we can all be more hyper-efficient. And yes, more productivity means you need fewer employees.
China's economy is slowing. Look for bad things to happen if they cannot maintain their employment numbers.
Kuerig (re)learns that open interfaces work best for business.
A Federal Appeals Court rules that what the NSA has been doing is illegal.
Microsoft is moving to Windows as a Service (WaaS?).
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Saturday May 9, 2015
Here is an idea that doesn't require new tech, just integration: a cane for blind people that recognizes persons' faces 10 meters away.
A look at smart thermostats.
Watch out Raspberry Pi: CHIP is a $9 computer on a credit card that runs Linux.
The Hollywood model of career: short-term and project-based.
Meeting alien life will probably mean needing a microscope.
How did Facebook replace MySpace? It had to do with attitudes of users about privacy.
Russia and China sign what may be the world's first cyber treaty. Who will break it first?
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Sunday May 10, 2015
An application for Intel's Next Unit of Computing—a fanless, tough industrial PC.
More information on the $9 CHIP Linux computer. This is great.
This person has worn Google Glass for two years. The reaction is positive, but then again, if it were negative he wouldn't have kept using it.
An MIT study says that current solar power tech is good enough, but needs more research funding. This isn't surprising—a research organization says the government should spend more on research.
Tips for writers about marketing, i.e., trying to convince people they should pay you to write.
Just how much did famous writers write each day? Word counts for them.
Late-night writing often leads to late-night over eating. You need your health.
Tips on finding a regular blog writing job that actually pays a little money.
Yes, there are writing jobs listed on Craigslist.
Do we write like robots or like people with real feelings?
Four friends that are most helpful to a writer.
What do you do with old boxes full of stuff from the days when we wrote on paper?
Notes on creating an outline without creating an outline.
Tips on seeing my own faults and improving as a writer.
A list of lesser-known social media tools for writers.
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